[CMake] cmake and stow: differing installation and runtime locations

[Michael Wild]

On 30. Sep, 2010, at 11:11 , Christoph Groth wrote:

> Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 30. Sep, 2010, at 10:51 , Christoph Groth wrote:
>> 
>>> I was not able to find out how to specify different installation and
>>> runtime locations with cmake.
>> 
>> Why must your program know anything about the $HOME prefix? After all,
>> it's only symlinked there.
> 
> Some packages (e.g. ALPS http://alps.comp-phys.org/) write or even
> compile-in the installation path into some of the installed files, for
> the package to know where it is installed.
> 
> Christoph

Yes, and that installation path should be $HOME/stow/package-name. After all, that's where all the real files are. This way, you can even run the executables even if they are not currently symlinked.

If you can't live with that, use

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME /path/to/source
make
make install DESTDIR=$HOME/stow/package-name

Michael

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